However, in June of the same year, when the specific contents of the "Xia Ming Sujun Agreement" (the Ming Dynasty used Sucheng as the Kyoto and later changed its name to Sujing, but the Xia Dynasty still called it Sujun) were sent back to Anyang City, the conscious The nobles of the Xia Dynasty, who had lost their imperial style and a large number of vested interests, immediately took action. While they sent people to spread the contents of the agreement, they also impeached the peace envoy sent by Si Zong in the court. Xiyu Chaoyong!
Faced with the turbulent sentiments of the nobles and ministers, Xia Sizong, who had just made peace with the rebellious family, had to make concessions during the court meeting. While dismissing Xiyu Chaoyong and imprisoning him, he also completely vetoed the "Xia Ming" that had just been signed with the Ming court. "Sujun Agreement"!
Assemble the army and prepare for war! This was the first reaction of the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers in Sujing after learning that the Xia Dynasty unilaterally rejected the "Xia Ming Su County Agreement"! The main reason is that most of them do not want to negotiate peace with the weak Xia Ting. They want to gain more land and population through war! But now Anyang's reaction is so deadly that it just gives them the best excuse to start a war...
In September of the 16th year of Jingxi, the Ming Dynasty Li Lei Supervisor, Anding Hou Xu Yuan, with Xu Jixian (the second son of Xu Yuan), the military commander of the Lizhou Dusi Middle School, as the vanguard, commanded 100,000 Ming troops to cross the river and invade the territory of Sili ( Sili, that is, Zhongzhou, the state where the capital of Xia Ting is located)! At this time, the frontline troops of Xu Jixian's Ming army were less than 300 miles away from Anyang City, the capital of the Xia Dynasty!
There are 10,000 forbidden troops, 20,000 Sili garrison, and 20,000 Chenzhou army. The main combat purpose of this improvised army of 50,000 people is to block Liu Xiu's troops from entering Sili city via Qingzhou; The original troops are the remnants of the Xia Army's Hutoushan troops who have been following behind! The Xia army, which was ravaged by the plague and dispersed by the Ming army, reunited under the leadership of Chen Qizhi, the Duke of Chen. They will fall behind the Ming army and harass them non-stop!
Moreover, in addition to dispatching these two armies, Xia Ting also mobilized thousands of horse troops from Qingzhou and Quzhou to serve as mobile forces on the battlefield! Their purpose is to coordinate Qiu Shenji's Imperial Army and Chen Qizhi's Xia Army to prevent any of them from being defeated by Ming Ni again!
The reason for this arrangement is that no matter which of the Xia army's guards is missing, Anyang, the capital of Xia Ting, will be in danger of being breached by the Ming army! Therefore, as the supreme ruler of the Great Xia Empire, they mobilized all the horse troops at hand to rush to support everywhere. The royal family and the aristocratic family would never allow such a thing to happen!
Zhongzhou Sili area.
In the autumn of the 16th year of Jingxi's reign, hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides of the Ming and Xia Dynasties launched a desperate fight on the vast Zhongzhou Plain. Cannons, matchlocks, three-eyed blunderbuss, magical blunderbuss, long knives, heavy axes, giant crossbows, Trebuchets, bows and arrows, spears... the soldiers on both sides used all possible means, with only one purpose, and that was to save their own lives, and then work hard to kill the enemy in front of them!
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Bird boat flying on the Henanese.
In the captain's cabin of the bird ship, Kang Lin was listening intently to Qiao Si slowly telling the secrets of the empire. It wasn't until the sky turned completely dark and Luo Guang came in to hold the lamp that he was surprised to find that he actually I sat upright and listened to it all afternoon!
"Xiaoguang, tell me to go down and ask the kitchen to prepare some food. I want to talk with Boss Qiao while eating!" Then, the guy touched his hungry stomach and stood up to give Qiao Si a tea bowl. Refilling the water, he turned around and gave a few instructions to his personal attendant in a deep voice, asking him to go down and arrange the meal. The reason why they did not go to the deck to dine was simply because someone had been attracted by the secrets of the Imperial Continent narrated by Qiao Si, and did not want to waste precious time anymore. He wanted to continue listening to Qiao Si's narration while having a meal.
"Okay, boss." Luo Guang hung the adjusted oil lamp on the hook on the wooden bulkhead, then held the knife at his waist and left the cabin to make arrangements.
"Master Liu, there seems to be a small island ahead!" A watcher in the watch put down the monocular telescope in his hand and pointed at the sea directly in front with an excited face to report to Liu Laoliu, who was actually in charge of commanding the ship. .
"Well, I also saw it, it looks like a small island! But it's getting late now, and we don't know much about what's going on on the island. We have to send someone to take a closer look before we can rest assured! Come here, give me the order to go down, everyone in the fleet The ships lowered their sails, dropped their anchors, and sent a few people on sampans to go up first and have a look..." Liu Laoliu took the brass telescope in his hand and looked in the direction pointed by his hand. Sure enough, in front
Not far away, a small island that is not too big is looming on the sea level!
"Yes!" The men carried out Liu Laoliu's order very well, because within a very short time after the order was issued, a sampan was lowered from the big ship by the sailors, carrying four or five crew members towards the island. The direction went.
An hour later.
"Master, the sentry just came to report that a small island was discovered not far away. It is getting late now and there is no other place to anchor the boat. Should we rest there for the night?" When Kang Lin and others had the opportunity to store water, Liu Laoliu pushed open the wooden hatch of the captain's cabin and walked in slowly. He bowed to the master who was devouring food with Qiao Si behind the high wooden table, and then reported to berth the ship. Matters come.
"Okay, since this is the only island nearby, let's park the boat here and rest. Oh, by the way, Uncle Six, don't ask me about this kind of thing in the future. Just take care of it yourself!" Kang Lin tried his best. After swallowing a piece of fish meat, he grabbed the clay pot of tea and drank from it. Then he raised his head and gave instructions to Liu Laoliu, who was standing solemnly in the cabin.
"Okay, Master!" Liu Laoliu saw that Kang Lin and Qiao Si had almost finished eating. He expected that the two of them would have something to talk about later, so he knowingly handed over his hands and left. .
"Okay, now that you've had enough rice and soup, Boss Qiao, let's continue talking!" After Kang Lin ordered someone to put away the dishes, he immediately turned to Qiao Si who was enjoying tea.
"Huh!" Liu Laoliu squatted on the deck and had just finished smoking a pack of cigarettes. The sampan that went out to investigate also came back. Then, under the light of torches, the sailors on the big ship quickly pulled up their companions on the sampan.
"Sixth Master, my brothers went up to the small island to have a look, and found that there was nothing else but trees on it, so we walked around on it and came back..." The person responsible for leading the team went up. The one who checked the island was the little leader Zheng Nansheng (the musketeer who led the team to find the lucky boat). Dressed in black, he quickly climbed onto the bird boat and gave Liu Laoliu an island patrol report in the simplest words.
"Okay, that being the case, let's anchor the ship near the island!" After listening to Zheng Nansheng's words, Liu Laoliu didn't think too much, and then ordered the fleet to sail in the direction of the island. .
"Master, we just said that both sides will invest hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Zhongzhou battlefield in the next summer and enter the stalemate stage. What I want to talk about next is what happens after the Zhongzhou battlefield..." After finishing the meal, Qiao Si said briefly He took a sip of the freshly brewed green tea, cleared his throat, and then stroked his beard and continued to talk to the head of Kang University who was sitting on the wooden bench and waiting eagerly,
"In June of the 16th year of Jingxi, all the rebels were defeated by the Xia court. The scattered rebel armies took advantage of the opportunity when the main forces of the Xia army in various places were deployed to conquer the Ming army. They rose up again. In just one month, they One hundred thousand tribesmen gathered together and began to attack cities everywhere! Some of their elites even traveled across the state and county, and continued to advance towards the important areas of Tianjin of the Great Xia Dynasty! Therefore, for a time, the northern land was full of smoke and war clouds. !
At the end of August of that year, Wang Niumo, the leader of the Zezhou rebel army, led the nine-route rebel army of Honzhou to capture Changqiao County (under Baoyang County, an important town in Zezhou), massacred all officials and more than 3,000 soldiers, and reestablished the rebel banner; the next month, the house The state horse thieves led the Luo Cidi people's Kunda tribe into Xuanzhou, defeated three thousand Xuanzhou garrison at Zhushan (a famous mountain in Yucheng County), and captured Yucheng; in the same month, the Quzhou and Chenzhou refugee armies joined forces and defeated Chenzhou. The garrison under the command of the governor of the state has more than 3,000 soldiers in regiment training! What's more, what's even more terrible is that a small group of them are entering the hinterland of Zhongzhou day and night...
Anyang is shocked! Xia Ting was shocked! The royal family and aristocratic families were shocked when they learned that the refugee army was approaching the capital! However, at this moment, they could no longer mobilize any troops to stop the refugee rebels who were getting bigger day by day. There was no other way. Xia Sizong could only issue an order to use the servants, tenants, and family generals of aristocratic and wealthy families as soldiers and hand them over to the ministers. Er Zhu Xiaotian formed a new army to stop the aggressive refugee army!
At the end of September in the 16th year of Jingxi's reign, Erzhu Xiaotian's new army and the Quzhou refugee army fought fiercely in Gaoxian County (belonging to the Zhongzhou Sili Department). Sixty thousand improvised Hao slave troops fought against fifty thousand people who lacked food, clothing and armor and staff. The refugee army! But the result of this battle shocked everyone. The Haonu Army, which was well-equipped with armor and had a numerical advantage, actually abandoned the Chenzhou Army, a friendly force that came to cooperate with it, half an hour after the battle began, and turned around and headed towards the high ground. County Dazhai collapsed! What's even worse is that their lame behavior greatly affected the normal performance of the Chenzhou Army. Therefore, except for the 800 Chenzhou Qingqi who broke out during the battle, the total number of 8,000 Chenzhou Infantry was wiped out. , and their general, Chenzhou Defense Commander Lei Shijin, was killed by Qi Wenshirong, the second leader of the Quzhou Refugee Army (originally a small landowner in Chenzhou, who assassinated the county magistrate for some reason, and then defected to the Refugee Army after the failure). Head on!
The defeated general Er Zhu Xiaotian (a member of Prime Minister Su Wei's party) was thrown into prison, and the veteran general Xiyu Chaoyong was re-activated (so the son of Xiyu Xianjun, Guanglu Xun, who once served as the governor of Zhuzhou and led the army to quell the cholera epidemic in Wuhan). In the following year, he took the post of Zhuzhou Defense Envoy and Forbidden Army Colonel and led the army to repel the Qidani people who wanted to plow the grass valley in Zhuzhou. Therefore, Xiyu Chaoyong was rare among the generals. Jing Xichao can be called a "good general" and "veteran general"), and he also handed over to him three thousand Xuanzhou cavalry of Prince Qin in the south, in the hope that Xiyu can turn the tide and become the pillar of the empire!
